Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Turf Club of Thailand
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:57, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
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Royal Turf Club of Thailand
[edit]- ... that spectators without proper footwear used to have to rent shoes to attend races at the Royal Turf Club of Thailand? Source: "กิจการที่โดดเด่นเป็นเอกลักษณ์ของสนามม้าก็คือ ธุรกิจให้เช่ากล้องส่องทางไกล และรองเท้าหุ้มส้น ด้วยว่าสนามม้ามีกฎระเบียบให้แต่งกายสุภาพ โดยเฉพาะห้ามสวมรองเท้าแตะ กิจการชั่วคราวนี้จึงถือกำเนิดขึ้นคู่สนามม้ามานับสิบๆ ปีแล้ว แต่ในปัจจุบันความเข้มงวดของกฎดังกล่าวได้ผ่อนคลายลง จึงมีผู้ใช้บริการเช่ารองเท้าน้อยลง ส่งผลให้พ่อค้าแม่ค้าต้องปรับตัวหันมาให้เช่ากล้องส่องทางไกลแทน"[1] (In Thai, but see CNN Travel for description of a similar arrangement at another course.)
- Reviewed: Johann Balthasar König
Created by Paul_012 (talk). Self-nominated at 07:57, 13 April 2018 (UTC).
The full review is to follow, but I'm not exactly sure if the hook proposed here is "hooky" enough; from experience, people requiring specific footwear and renting such footwear when going to certain places is not uncommon (for example, bowling alleys have similar policies for players). Indeed, it appears to be the norm at Thai racing courses, so it isn't specific to this one. As a suggestion, perhaps a hook about this phrase ("The club would also become known as Sanam Thai (the "Thai racecourse"), as opposed to the Sanam Farang ("Farang racecourse") at the RBSC, reflecting the split of the clubs' clients between Thais and Westerners") or a hook about the club being popular among Thai politicians could work too. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:44, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- I can't quite think up a politics-related hook that will be succinct enough. How about the following Alts below? The shoe thing still seems quite interesting to me, though—maybe we could leave it as an option for the promoter to decide. (I also originally entertained the thought of making ALT3 a triple nomination, but decided to nominate the RBSC article separately, as it has a more interesting fact.) --Paul_012 (talk) 12:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that the Royal Turf Club of Thailand was formed by Thai aristocrats dissatisfied with the management at the expat-dominated Royal Bangkok Sports Club?
- ALT2: ... that a Neoclassical heritage building at the Royal Turf Club of Thailand is believed to have been a royal stable?
- ALT3: ... that horse racing became so popular in Thailand that in 1949 the government ordered the Royal Turf Club and the Royal Bangkok Sports Club to alternate months holding races?
- Pinging Narutolovehinata5, in case you're not watching the page. --Paul_012 (talk) 20:36, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Article was created just within the required time frame and meets the newness requirements. Article is free of copyright violations or plagiarism. Article is adequately sourced; Thai-language sources for the hooks and other content are accepted AGF. QPQ done. All three hooks are approved, but the most interesting one in my opinion is ALT2; if you wish to nominate Royal Bangkok Sports Club for DYK, I suggest possibly saving ALT3 as an alternate for then. Good to go. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:41, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
